Free Activity Calendar for Seniors

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Print out your recreation therapy calendar each month and fill it in as you go! The calendar is pre-filled with events from the Golden Carers Calendar. It's fully editable so you can add, remove, and update events as you need.

We don't have a Weekly Calendar download yet for Golden Carers, but we do have a professional activity and client management system which has Daily, Weekly, and Monthly calendar downloads called Golden Care Tools: https://www.goldencaretools.com/

Toolkit is a professional online system for managing clients, attendance, and activities. If you have an active Golden Carers membership there is a free plan available if all you need to manage are activites:

Hi. I'd love to use this but wonder if there Is any way this can be linked to an existing electronic calendar, e.g. microsoft outlook? I use an calendar on Outlook specifically for my Care Home activities but this would be a real improvement.

I am struggling with being able to personalize the space where the month and date first appear on the top of the calendar. I would like to be able to type our community name as well as the month and year. I know it can be done because I did it successfully with one of my January calendars but was unable to remember the exact steps I did in the "compatible" mode to make it work on my second calendar, thus I had to actually cut with scissors and tape my heading on. "Please help teach this old dog a new trick" Any help would be very much appreciated.

This new calendars is not working it will not let me enlarge the word so that the residents can read it or it keeps moving the cells on the calendar around I have several staff try to make this work but the font does not change like it should for each day it all stays the same tell me what I am I doing wrong running out of time to get this done

Have you tried some of the larger font sizes, particularly 16pt / 18pt / 20pt? The "Microsoft Word" version will give you more flexibility, as you can always change the font size after generating it.

PDFs aren't editable files so they can't be changed afterwards.

We've also recently added a "Tabloid" printing option, this is an 11" by 17" page, so if you can print at that size it gives you far more room to increase the font size and it will be easier for your residents to see the activities.

Lastly, if you don't have weekend activities, you could use the 5-Day option in Portrait mode.

If you have any other suggestions please let us know, we're always looking to improve!

We have the same problem, needing 6 lines some days.You can't get more than 4 lines unless you go lower in font size than 10, which is too small for our residents.So what we do is print it on 2 pages, then cut the 2nd page out & stick it on the bottom of the first page. Kind of old school, but it works!

Great to hear your solution Linda! Another idea is to print on a larger paper size, like A3 or Tabloid, and then switch to Portrait mode. That will give you far more room vertically and it may just onto 1 page depending on the number of activities. :)

Hi . I am trying to down load the calendar for January 2019 to December 2019 so we can plan our year ahead and it will only down load December 2018. When will the 2019 full year calendar be available please?

Hey Donna! Are you still having trouble? We've moved the full 12-month download to the top of the "Months" section, the option was a little hidden. You can download the full 2019 calendar anytime you like :)

I just looked at the Calendars which I had seen but didn't take the time to investigate properly, I am so impressed and will be using them from now on. Such a wonderful website for DT's, thank you so much.

I joined the free trial for Golden Care Tools. I love the Calendar set up. You can list all activities and manoeuvre them around without having to physically type each activity in for each day. I cannot seem to find out how to do that with this calendar and I cannot justify the cost for Golden Care Tools for the calendar when I have already paid for this site. Do you have any suggestions?

The Calendars on Golden Carers (above) are designed in a way that people can download the templates and use them however they like. It's fully up to them to add, remove, update, and plan their calendars on a monthly basis.

The Golden Care Tools (https://www.goldencaretools.com) system is a far more sophisticated online program that is designed as a professional service. Generally, a facility or workplace will pay for Golden Care Tools directly, as it lets you add and manage clients, schedule activities, and then allows detailed reports to be created for and use for accreditation and government audits.

Hi Maurice, It's easier for me to use portrait when I'm working on my newsletter. In publisher, you aren't able to use portrait on one page and landscape on another, they all have to be the same format. Also, it's uploaded to a resident website, and they prefer for it to be in portrait view as well. Thanks for the response!

Finding this resource has saved my life! :)Thank you so much.Just a question - for days where I need more than 5 lines for activities, is there any other way I can get more room apart from reducing the font size?

We're launching new calendars very soon, I think they might do exactly what you're after :)

Teri Strebel 13th Jul 2018

Very interested in becoming a member but I need to make sure that your calendar will work with our current printing system. I need to be able to do the calendars as a word doc in landscape format and legal size (8.5 x 14). Is this format available in your downloadable and editable calendars?Thanks, Teri

Hi Fiona, we have had a number of requests for this. We will be releasing the 2018 calendar in September and will make sure this is scheduled in earlier for 2019! I'll let you know as soon as it's out.

Hi Vanessa, early dementia symptoms vary from person to person, which is why it is important to offer meaningful activities based on individual tastes as much as possible. If that is not practical you may try activities that stir the memory, improve motor skills, promote creativity, and make them feel included and needed. Most activities in Golden Carers are suitable for early dementia. You will be the judge as to whether activities need to be modified for safety and practicality. Activities such as puzzles, singing, painting, colouring, carpet bowling, cooking, collage, gardening and many others are a good starting point. Best wishes.

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